Monday, September 28, 2009

Medical News: Risk of Sudden Death No Less Likely with Atypical Antipsychotics - in Psychiatry, Schizophrenia from MedPage Today

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 14 -- Atypical antipsychotic drugs carry a risk of sudden cardiac death similar to that associated with older antipsychotics, an analysis of a Medicaid database revealed.

Users of either class of drugs had a two-fold greater risk of sudden death compared with nonusers, Wayne A. Ray, Ph.D., of Vanderbilt University, and colleagues reported in the Jan. 15 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine,,,,,,,

Medical News: Risk of Sudden Death No Less Likely with Atypical Antipsychotics - in Psychiatry, Schizophrenia from MedPage Today

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